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100
Director who is credited with the following films: Creed, Fruitvale Station, and Black Panther
Who is Ryan Coogler?
100
Professional sport that Lee Elder played.
What is golf?
100
Producer, actor, author, and philanthropist. In 2003, was featured in Forbes magazine as a billionaire.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
100
A man called Cinque led a successful rebellion aboard this slave ship in the mid-nineteenth century.
What is the Amistad?
100
Howard University educated, currently the highest ranking African American and female government official in US history.
Who is Kamala Harris?
200
First African American woman to win the best director award at the Sundance Film Festival. Her works include: Selma, A Wrinkle in Time, When They See Us.
Who is Ava DuVernay?
200
Won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany.
Who is Jesse Owens?
200
Singer turned business mogul. Recently named billionaire for her beauty, skin and intimate apparel lines.
Who is Rihanna?
200
Malcolm X’s birth name.
What is Malcolm Little?
200
Educated with an MS in Organic Chemistry, served as the 2nd and 4th Mayor for Washington, DC. His tag line was “Mayor for Life.”
Who is Marion Barry?
300
First African American to win an Oscar for her role in Gone with the Wind.
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
300
This men’s basketball team won a Gold Medal at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. The team went by this nickname. Name 2 of its members.
What is the "Dream Team?" Who are Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen of the Chicago Bulls, John Stockton and Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz, Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers, Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics, Patrick Ewing of the New York Knicks, Chris Mullin of the Golden State Warriors, David Robinson of the San Antonio Spurs, and Charles Barkley of the Philadelphia 76ers?
300
Recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
300
The U.S. Emancipation Proclamation legally freed slaves in these areas. The year it was signed.
What is Confederate territory? What is 1863?
300
Democratic Congressional representative for the state of California. Trended with the tag line “I’m reclaiming my time.”
Who is Maxine Waters?
400
Actress and writer whose works include "Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl."
Who is Issa Rae?
400
First Black player to quarterback a Super Bowl victory. He played for this team.
Who is Doug Williams? What is the Washington Redskins?
400
City that was home to Black Wall Street more than 100 years ago.
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma?
400
On March 2, 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for this.
What is refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus? This was nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested.
400
Served as the first African American Secretary of State from 2001-2005.
Who is Colin Powell?
500
Credited as the most successful African American actor of all time. This actor has appeared in over 140 movies.
Who is Samuel L. Jackson?
500
Who are Olympic fencers?
500
With an amassed wealth totaling more than $6 billion, he is the tech investor and philanthropist who founded and serves as CEO of Vista Equity Partners. In 2019, he made headlines for paying off student loan debt for a graduating class.
Who is Robert F. Smith?
500
The University of the District of Columbia was organized by free black women in 1851 under this name.
What is the Normal School for Colored Girls (or the Miner Normal School)?
500
Pivotal figure in advocating for voting rights. First African American woman to respond to the State of the Union address. Candidate for Georgia governor.
Who is Stacey Abrams?